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I'm psyched cuz Pearl Jam, Foo Fighters, Flaming Lips, etc are gonna play their stuff. Anyone catch this special? The songs sound SO fresh. Any of them could have been written just today. Well, actually, no one writes stuff that good anymore, so maybe not.

Jack Black: The Beatles never sang a song called BEA-TLES, BEA-TLES!

Heh.

Who fans?]]> Sat, 19 Jul 2008 09:07:54 Sandra http://www.dmbeatles.com/forums/m-1216404788/ http://www.dmbeatles.com/forums/m-1216404788/#num1
1) "Born Free" to go down from a note to its 5th (like a G to a D);
2) "Twinkle Twinkle" to go up from a note to its 5th (like a G to a D)
3) The first two notes of the TV jingle from "N-B-C", to go up a 6th,
4)  "Here Comes the Bride" to go up a 4th.
5) To go down from the major 3rd of a chord to the dominant (like an E to a C) - I use a weird one, "Da---rryl", they used to mock a certain baseball player in the 80's in Yankee Stadium with that (Daryll Strawberry). I'm sure there are more musical ones, but that works for me!
6) That 70's song "Feelings" to go down from a note to it's minor third (like from an E to a G).

Can someone help me out with some of these others please (it's for a harmony to Sheryl Crow's "First Cut is the Deepest")? If it's an interval embedded in a major verse from a Beatles hit, that would be great, as it would definitely qualify as "burned into my brain"!

1. Up an augmented 4th (for example, a G to a C#).
2. Down from the dominant of a chord to the tonic (for example, a G to a C).
3. Down a minor 3rd (for example, a D to a B). I sing "Duke of Earl" to get this, but it takes too long  

And ... if you know any other intervals, please pass those along too!

I know after a while the intervals become instinctive, but it sure helps me to think in these terms when starting out.

Thanks  ]]> Fri, 18 Jul 2008 22:13:08 alexis http://www.dmbeatles.com/forums/m-1216324703/ http://www.dmbeatles.com/forums/m-1216324703/#num1 Thu, 17 Jul 2008 23:58:23 Jane http://www.dmbeatles.com/forums/m-1216319245/ http://www.dmbeatles.com/forums/m-1216319245/#num1
I was wondering ... did they come up with this on their own in the back of their little van, sleep-deprived, cold, being bounced around, with Prelly dust and alcohol running through their veins? Or was this change well known/used in popular music before them? I can't recall it in any other songs, but I'm not an expert in pre-Beatles stuff ...

I thought maybe "Take Good Care of My Baby", by Goffin-King (and of course recorded by the Beatles on their Decca Audition) had that pivot in its middle eight, but at least on one online site it doesn't (I'm not at home so I can't do it up for myself).

Thanks for any thoughts. I mean really, they were geniuses of course, but were they THAT good to make up this kind of chord change/key pivot? In my simple mind, putting that into "From Me To You" was really what jump started their song-writing - absolutely brilliant, changed a nursery rhyme ditty ("If there's anything that you want ...") into a really great song that rocketed them straight to Beatlemania.

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